Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of depriving, or the state of being deprived; deprivation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare Deprivation.
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- noun
deprivation
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Examples
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Billions of humans are suffering impoverishment, deprivement, oppression and exploitation.
Sound Politics: "Peak Oil" Despair Versus Energy Innovation 2007
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Plenty of humans are suffering already and at least 2,000,000,000 are locked into perpetual impoverishment and deprivement without any hope whatsoever of escape.
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Now you call it nutritional deprivement (sic), I call it starvation, but what I want to talk about for a moment is your client, Terri ` s husband.
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O what a loss and deprivement is the loss of God, which makes death more desirable than life, and not to be at all, infinitely preferable to any being!
The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning Hugh Binning 1640
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